Blackjack on Terminal

What is Blackjack?

A card game the object of which is to be dealt cards having a higher count than those of the dealer up to but not exceeding 21 according to merriam-webster

For more informations check Wikipedia

Prerequisites

Install clojure

You need Clojure run the game,

To install on mac:

brew install clojure/tools/clojure

To install on Linux:

curl -O https://download.clojure.org/install/linux-install-1.10.2.774.sh
chmod +x linux-install-1.10.2.774.sh
sudo ./linux-install-1.10.2.774.sh

for more informations check: Install Clojure

Checkout project

let's clone the project first:

git clone https://github.com/elarous/blackjack_clj.git

cd blackjack_clj/

Run tests

To run tests, use the following command:

clojure -M:test

How to play

You can launch the game using:

clojure -M:run

You will see some informations on the top: the current round number, the number of wins and losses so far.

On the next lines you can see the cards dealt to each side (the dealer & the player), In the beginning the second card of the dealer will be face down which is represented by the (XXXX) placeholder.

The prompt on the last line asks the player for what move to take next,

• Enter h to Hit (gets a new card to your hand)
• Enter s to Stand (passes the turn to the dealer which is the computer in this case)

After a series of actions the round will end, with three possible outcomes:

• You Win
• You Lose
• Draw

The last hands of the player and the dealer are displayed too at the end.

And finally, a new round is started, with the current score.